- The 60 mm rotor diameter, 3 ch. and 3.3 grams Picoflyer will be introduced to
the public in September 2005, first during the 2005 NEAT fair in New York and
then a few days later at the MAV'05 in Germany. The Picoflyer is the smallest RC
helicopter ever built and it is operated by a 900 MHz radio system.
- The 4 ch. Proxflyer Mosquito Twin-tail helicopter will be introduced to
the public in September 2005, first during the 2005 NEAT fair in New York and
then a few days later at the MAV'05 in Germany. This helicopter uses the Proxflyer
principle to achieve passive stability, but at the same time it can be operated
as a normal helicopter with yaw, pitch and roll control.
- The 2.7 gram Nanoflyer was introduced to the public in September 2004,
first during the Micro UAV 2004 in Toulouse, France and a few days later at
the 2004 NEAT fair in New York.
- The 50 gram, Bladerunner from Interactive Toy Concepts (ITC) is the first
commercial product to utilize the Proxflyer principle. ITC has obtained an
exclusive license agreement with Proxflyer AS enabling them to use
this unique concept.
- The Proxflyer Micron was introduced to the public in December 2003
Please click on this link to view the press release (.pdf).
- The Evolution (.pdf), gives some of the back ground for the Micron project.
- The Proxflyer appears in the November issue of RC microFLIGHT magazine, as
well as in the January issue of the well known Model Airplane News magazine.
It also appears in that latest NEAT 2003 video from SKS Video Production.
- NEAT 2003.
The Proxflyer was shown publicly for the first time at the 2003
Northeast Electric Aircraft Technology Fair in Peaceful Valley, NY, USA.
The flights during the special demonstration session Saturday evening (9/13).
was a great success and the Proxflyer got a lot of attention.
- The Proxflyer, equipped with a wireless color video camera, Friday 8/15/03
performed what is believed to be the first ever controlled flight where the
pilot operated the helicopter solely by looking at a large videoconferencing
screen displaying the pictures from the helicopter. The pictures were
transmitted to the remote location by TANDBERG video conferencing.
The Proxflyer performed two successful flights of approximately 1 minute.
Each flight included: Take off, forward flights, turns and a controlled
landing. During one of the flights, the pilot at the remote end, purely by
observing the pictures coming from the Proxflyer were able to discover and
recognize a person coming into the room where the flight took place.
The Proxflyer had no form for guiding or flight control system (no gyro).
- As part of the plan for commercial development, a patent application
covering the concept and control principles as well as different ways to
implement it, is filed in Norway and will soon be extended world wide.
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